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Consolidated
appeal for Zimbabwe 2006
Consolidated
Appeals Process (CAP)
November
30, 2005
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Executive
summary
Many
of the humanitarian challenges facing Zimbabwe are common to countries
in Southern Africa, particularly the "triple threat" of
Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome
(HIV/AIDS), food insecurity and declining capacity for basic social
service provision, in addition to a large number of orphans and
vulnerable children. The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is further
impacted by economic decline, and formal and informal migration
of skilled and unskilled labour, which could be countered by appropriate
Government policies. In the 2005-2006 season, at least three million
people will require food assistance, as the country has harvested
an estimated 600,000 Metric Tonnes (MTs) of maize, compared to its
requirement of 1.8 million MTs. While the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate
among adults is reported to have dropped to 21.3% in 2005, the disease
continues to cause the death of 3,000 Zimbabweans per week. HIV/AIDS
has also fuelled a rapid growth in the number of orphans and vulnerable
children, which has now reached over 1.3 million. The economic situation,
with high inflation rates, shortages in foreign exchange, high unemployment
and negative growth, adds to the vulnerability and suffering of
the population.
In 2005, the
humanitarian situation was further compounded by the Government’s
Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order, which targeted what the Government
considered to be illegal housing structures and informal businesses.
The operation led to rapid growth in the number of displaced and
homeless people, combined with loss of livelihoods for those that
previously worked in the informal sector. Based on Government estimates
that 133,000 households were evicted during the Operation, the Secretary-General’s
Special Envoy for Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe estimate that
some 650,000-700,000 people were directly affected through the loss
of shelter and/or livelihoods.
The Inter-Agency
Standing Committee (IASC) members participating in the Consolidated
Appeals Process (CAP) for Zimbabwe project that the humanitarian
situation is likely to continue to deteriorate in 2006, particularly
due to the steady decline of the economy, which will have an adverse
effect for already vulnerable populations. Among the expected developments
in 2006 are decreases in the quality and access to basic services;
deepening of urban poverty; continued difficulty of people previously
employed in the informal sector in re-establishing their livelihoods;
continued emigration, both legally and illegally; new farm evictions;
and deepening overall vulnerability to natural disasters. In this
scenario, participants in the CAP expect that, unless appropriate
humanitarian action is taken, the use of negative coping mechanisms
will increase, placing vulnerable persons at further risk, deepening
poverty and minimising opportunities for long term recovery.
The priority
humanitarian actions for 2006 will be to save lives, enhance positive
coping mechanisms, mitigate the impact on vulnerable populations,
and ensure a comprehensive and co-ordinated humanitarian response.
The objectives
of this Appeal are to:
- reduce morbidity
and mortality rates;
- increase
access and quality of basic social services;
prevent the further deterioration of livelihoods and enhance community
coping mechanisms;
- provide protection
for the most vulnerable; and
- contribute
to the prevention, mitigation and provision of care and treatment
for HIV/AIDS.
The 2006 Consolidated
Appeal aims to:
- provide food
assistance to an estimated 3 million people; provide agricultural
and livelihoods support to 1.4 million households;
- improve access
and quality of education services for 93,000 children;
- provide temporary
shelter to 23,000 displaced and homeless households;
- immunise
5.2 million children against preventable communicable diseases
and ensure nutrition and disease surveillance; provide home-based
care for 55,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS;
- provide basic
health care, including essential drugs and anti-retroviral drugs
to 3.6 million people;
- assist 600,000
women and children in mother and child health care programmes;
target 1.6 million community members in health monitoring and
surveillance;
- reach 4.5
million people with messages to promote behavioural change and
prevent HIV;
- sensitise
1.5 million people on the prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based
Violence (SGBV);
- provide multi-sectoral
assistance to 300,000 mobile and vulnerable populations;
- provide assistance
to 96,000 returning deportees; ensure assistance and psychosocial
support to over 500,000 orphans and vulnerable children;
- and to deliver
improved water and sanitation services for 2.4 million people.
To this end, a total of 46 appealing agencies, including UN organisations,
national and international Non-Governmental Organisations, community
and faith based organisations, are requesting a total of US$
276,503,174 to implement programmes and projects as part of
the 2006 CAP.
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